The James Johnson Sweeney Papers in The Museum of Modern Art Archives contain correspondence and related material pertaining
to Sweeney's involvement with MoMA, beginning in the early 1930s as a friend of MoMA, continuing through his brief tenure
as Director of Painting and Sculpture in 1945 and 1946, and concluding in the 1950s and 1960s in various capacities.

The papers were sent by Sweeney's son to the Museum Archives in 2006. They comprised several folders, in no discernable order.
The bulk of the material consists of correspondence: typed letters to Sweeney, often with a carbon copy of his reply. It appears
that Sweeney was not in the habit of maintaining records of letters he sent unless they were in direct response to a letter
he received. A number of autograph letters are also included, often with the original envelopes. Several magazines containing
reviews of exhibitions curated by Sweeney are present in their entirety. A number of newspaper clippings are present and in
poor condition. There is also a composition book, labeled "JJS MoMA Notebook 1946," containing a list of paintings and artists
with shorthand evaluations of the work.

Access Restrictions

The records are open for research and contain no restricted materials.

Ownership and Literary Rights

The James Johnson Sweeney Papers are the physical property of The Museum of Modern Art. Literary rights, including copyright
belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business
resides with The Museum of Modern Art. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact
the Museum Archivist.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in DADABASE, the library catalog of The Museum of Modern Art. Researchers
desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

JJS is James Johnson Sweeney.ACG is A. Conger Goodyear.DHD is Dorothy H. Dudley.JTS is an James Thrall Soby.AHB is Alfred H. Barr.TDM is Thomas D. MabryALS is an Autographed Letter Signed.TLS is a Typed Letter Signed.TL stands for Typed Letter.MoMA is The Museum of Modern Art.n.d. stands for no date.re: stands for regarding.

Includes two letters to JJS, a copy of April 1937 MoMABulletin, and correspondence with Monroe Wheeler and Bill Lieberman re: JJS loan of "Landscape with Tactile Effects" to Max Ernst
retrospective, 1960

TL Bertram Smith- Members of the International Council Attending 1969 Spring Meeting in London. Includes itinerary.

Typed itinerary, including visit to Henry Moore's studio (1969)

Typed Preliminary Schedule for 1969 International Council Meeting. (1969)

Typed International exhibition list of exhibitions circulating under the auspices of the International Council (January-March
1969).

TLS Bertram Smith - Members of the International Council regarding the Annual Meeting of the Council in London. (January 2,
1969).

TLS Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd and Richard S. Ziesler- JJS regarding his support to the Library Overseas Program of the International
Council. (April 18, 1969).

Typed addresses of International Council Members in London (Spring 1969).

Typed names and addresses of hosts in London and Bath (Spring 1969).

ALS JJS-The Ritz Hotel, London, regarding a hotel reservation.

Typed tourism ephemera from JJS's stay in London for International Council Annual Meeting (Spring 1969).

Typed Itinerary of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in Munich (Spring 1969).

The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art 1972 Spring Meeting in Germany brochure and schedule.

Typed itineraries for International Council Meeting in Munich. (1972).

Xeroxed map of Germany.

Tourism ephemera from JJ's stay in Germany.

Schedule for International Council Meeting in New York (October 12, 1972).

Reports of Museum departments to the Policy Committee, 1944-1945. Includes lists of staff and their responsibilities, budget
information, recommendations for policy changes.

"Report on Exhibitions for the Policy Committee, June 28, 1944." Submitted by James T. Soby, including opening paragraph:
"In very recent years, due to the pressure of war, we have probably relaxed our exhibition standards more than we realize.
Most of our exhibitions relating to the war have been timely and of genuine propaganda, morale or instructional value. But
with the war now nearing an end, it would seem a good time to pull up short and face the basic problem of standards to follow
in the peace to come."

Report of the Committee on Policy to the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art. Includes separate typed conclusion.
Undated.

Correspondence between Iris Barry, Dir. of MoMA Film Library, and JJS (Jan.-Feb. 1949) re: film program

TL JJS-Alfred Barr (Oct. 20, 1948). "I am very complimented that my personal mail should be regarded as 'of general interest.'
And while I admire the zeal of your research assistants, I do think it somewhat discourteous, to say the least, after a personal
letter has been 'opened by mistake,' to copy and file the contents without troubling to ask the addressee's permission."

Correspondence between Gardner Morse, President of the Berkshire Museum, and JJS (May-July 1946) re: loan of Impressionist
paintings and Advisory Committee

TLS ACG-JJS (June 2, 1932) re: JJS article inCreative Art. "The chief trouble with American art to my mind is its rather solemn self-satisfaction. If our artists can once be made
to see that they really are not doing anything worth while, they should be in a fair way to correct their shortcomings."

TLS Katherine S. Dreier-JJS (Aug. 13, 1945) expressing shock and dismay at the use of MoMA in general and Duchamp's "Large
Glass" specifically in July 1945Vogue. "One cannot blame Vogue for they run true to form, but one can only be amazed and shocked that you should advise your Trustees
to so flippant and devastating a presentation of important works of art in the collection and loans of the Museum for Commerical
purposes…But apparently the desire for notoriety preceeds [sic] any reverence for art."

Typed ledger. "Schedule of Painting and Sculpture Budget and Expenditures for year ending June 30, 1945."

Typed ledger. "Schedule of Proceeds of Auction Sale of May 11, 1944."

TLS John E. Abbott-JJS (May 20, 1944) re: record of items sold at auction, May 11

Agenda, "Meeting of the Committee on the Museum Collections." Nov. 8, 1944.
Includes "Report of the Departmental Committee on Painting and Sculpture."

Announcement of the first René d'Harnoncourt Chair of International Studies in Art for Advanced Research in the Field of Modern
Art. No date (application deadline March 1, 1969).

Invitation to opening of Summer Exhibition, May 15, 1934.

Photocopy of letter to the editor by Ralph Pearson,The New Republic, Dec. 3, 1933. Pearson criticizes Hopper show at MoMA, AHB responds at length.

Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, October 1933.

TLS Rhys Caparn, president of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors-JJS (February 19, 1944) criticizing the Museum
of Modern Art's representation of American artists. Includes a copy of Clement Greenberg's related article from The Nation.

Typed letter, unsigned (Publicity Director), no date. Six page description of events leading up to publication of article
on MoMA by Roger Butterfield inSaturday Evening Post and controversy following publication. "I understand from two or three people in the Museum who have kindly passed the word
along to me that certain individuals and officials of the Museum consider the recent article in the Saturday Evening Post
injurious to the Museum and that, because I have the title of Publicity Director, I am being held responsible for the article.
If the article has injured anyone or anything, I feel that I am the one who has been injured, both professionally and personally,
and that, in fact, I was the victim of it."

Typed copy of "Minutes of the Meeting of the Exhibitions Committee of The Museum of Modern Art." September 25, 1946.
TLS Stephen C. Clark - JJS (May 12, 1944) re: establishment of Committee on the Museum Collections, asking JJS to serve as
Vice-President of parent committee and Chairman of sub-committee of Painting and Sculpture. Autographed notes on reverse.

The New Yorker, February 22, 1947. Brief article on a visit to MoMA by Albert C. Barnes mentions JJS.

Magazine of Art, 1947. "Henry Moore Comes to America," John D. Morse.

The New York Times, March 13, 1947. "Photographs and the Collected Art Works Of Stieglitz Will Be Exhibited by Museum."

The New Yorker, March 1, 1947. Cartoon with Henry Moore sculpture, signed AKoV.

Invitation to lecture by Mary Colum and Padraic Colum, "Irish Painters of Today," at meeting of The Irish Arts and Literary
Society, JJS Chairman. March 30, 1947.

Invitation to dinner held by The American Committee of Jewish Writers in honor of Marc Chagall being named Honorary Chairman
of Art of the International Jewish Conference on Culture, April 16, 1947. Image taken from "Marc Chagall" by JJS.

Invitation to opening of exhibition "Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore" at the Art Institute of Chicago, April 16, 1947.

New York Herald Tribune, May 7, 1947. "Art of the Week: Foreign and American Art in Full Flood," Carlyle Burrows.

The New York Times, May 4, 1947. "Doesburg in Retrospect."

Vogue Magazine, May 15, 1947. "Paul Klee: The great Swiss painter whose works are being collected for a Klee museum."

Invitation to "Artists Action Meeting" by the Art Division of Progressive Citizens of America, "to protest the State Department
cancellation and recall of its exhibitions from abroad." May 5, 1947. JJS speaking.

The New York Times, May 6, 1947. "Artists Protest Halting Art Tour."

The New York Times Book Review, May 18, 1947. "People Who Read and Write."
JJS mentioned as friend of T.S. Eliot.